BY NKOSANA PHIRI “Do you now think he’s worth 2,500,000,000 pesetas?†asks our Spanish commentator to his journalist colleague. The...
BY MARK HARGREAVES Ferguson never got on with Rafa, Clough didn’t see eye to eye with Revie and Mark Hughes...
BY KEVIN O'NEILL It was during a recent run-of-the-mill conversation with a mate that our minds revisited one of the...
BY SIMON WINTER Paddy Moore was born in 1909 in Ballybough, Co. Dublin, just north of the traditional socio-geographic dividing...
BY FEARGAL BRENNAN To say that Portugal shocked the footballing world this summer, would be quite an overstatement. Their success...
BY KEVIN O'NEILL Describing himself as English football's answer to Phileas Fogg, Peter Butler has seen as much of the...
BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM Humanity has the ability to survive in the most difficult of places and none more so than...
BY KEVIN O'NEILL WHEN KV Mechelen, a previously unheralded Belgian side, qualified for the 1987/88 European Cup Winners’ Cup, nobody believed...
BY MARK GODFREY It’s been a week or two now but the shock of England’s humbling defeat at the hands...
Taken from Issue 11 of The Football Pink URI LEVY looks at the Brazilian club who led the way in...
We take a peek at FEARGAL BRENNAN's 10-day diary of his EURO 2016 adventure following the Irish (and others) in France....
BY MARK GODFREY In the late summer of 2008, both sides of Stanley Park were made to sweat on their...
BY JOSHUA LAW Sport and politics. Those words sit together about as comfortably as Barcelona and a rainy Tuesday night...
BY DAN WILLIAMSON On June 6th Argentina will begin their Copa America campaign against Chile in Santa Clara, a suburb...
BY GLENN BILLINGHAM Football’s global media circus has been understandably distracted this week. Jose Mourinho’s noise-making at Old Trafford has...
BY JACK CORBISIERO-PETERS Life presents opportunities when we have to decide whether to stick or twist. Do we apply for...
BY CONOR HEFFERNAN Many footballers can lay claim to the title of Africa’s greatest ever footballer, but few have captured...
BY FEARGAL BRENNAN In April, the Old Lady of Turin secured their fifth Scudetto in a row, cruising to the...
BY SCOTT SALTER Inter-war Poland proved to be a difficult period in the nation’s history. Following the end of the...
BY MARK GODFREY The German city of Paderborn is well known to plenty of British people. Our armed forces have...
BY CRAIG MUNCEY South America has produced many fantastic footballers over the generations, players such as Garrincha, Jairzinho, Pele, Diego...
BY FEARGAL BRENNAN It's official. Football has fallen to the hipster regime. Thousands of mini-beanie wearing foot soldiers have wandered...
BY MARK GODFREY The slightly decrepit, rudimentary wooden construction stands, perhaps a little apologetically, behind security ropes, affording it just...
BY CRAIG MUNCEY In my early years playing football, I was always on the look out for a player who...
BY PAUL GRECH The story is an improbable one that is typical of the industry that retold and reshaped it;...
BY ALEX STEWART In spring 1990, Alexander McQueen, newly graduated from a Masters programme at Central Saint Martins, moved to...
BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM For many Parisians who wish to spend their summer holidays in the south west of France towards...
By Ciarán Breen On November 9, 2014, the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame inducted four former players. Isabelle Morneau...
BY GLENN BILLINGHAM Football fans of a certain age and/or taste will be lovingly familiar with Football Italia. Throughout the...
BY DAN WILLIAMSON Why do football fans wish to ground-hop and tick experiences and stadiums off their bucket list? Some...
WORDS AND PHOTOS BY PETER MILES I love football grounds; big or small, grand or rudimentary, I just love them....
This article originally appeared in Issue 9 of The Football Pink Migration from Africa to Europe remains very much in...
BY CHARLIE HATCH In American folklore, when the British redcoats came to Massachusetts in 1775 during the Revolutionary War, the...
BY JAMES RODGERS East Germany has become something of a footballing wasteland in recent years. The facts speak for themselves;...
BY MARK GODFREY - EDITOR While a galvanized Arsenal turned on the style to dismantle Olympiacos in Piraeus on Wednesday...
BY GLENN BILLINGHAM Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink is a managerial rarity. He is, all at once, a young Dutch football manager (aged...
BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM As countries go, there are few that can match the sheer stunning beauty of Andorra. Nestled firmly...
Pontiffs, Mussolini and casinos - part five in THE OUTSIDERS looks at an Italian club playing in Switzerland BY GLENN...
Next stop in THE OUTSIDERS series takes us to the tiny state of Liechtenstein. BY JEZ ROBERTS William Cook, writing...
The third instalment of our mini-series THE OUTSIDERS, we visit a city with a turbulent past and a club who...
Next up in our series THE OUTSIDERS, meet a team who are separated from their own country by metres yet...
Welcome to the first instalment of our new mini-series on teams who play their football in a country that is not...
The football world is obsessed with transfers and possible surprise moves; it all boils down to multi-million dollar pay cheques,...
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